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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: A minor example, but still notable in that it’s one of the few movies to not get consistent rereleases. Understandably so, as it and the movie that came before it as well as the two after it’s dubbing rights are owned by the defunct Miramax. More egregiously, the Blu-ray combo packs are only getting harder to find with prices continually rising.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: A minor example, but still notable in that it’s one of the few movies to not get consistent rereleases. Understandably so, as it and the movie that came before it as well as the two after it’s dubbing rights are owned by the defunct Miramax. More egregiously, the Blu-ray combo packs are only getting harder to find with prices continually rising. Averted as of December 2023, when the rights reverted to The Pokémon Company International, and they released it digitally.
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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Like ''Anime/Pokemon4Ever'', the non-Japan distributors Miramax/Disney didn't care at all for the ''Pokémon'' franchise and released it to just 200 theaters, ensuring its failure. Miramax's continuing hold on ''Heroes'' [[ScrewedByTheLawyers also made it one of the four movies]] The Pokémon Company could not re-release on the 20th anniversary of the franchise, nor include in ''[[Anime/PokemonIChooseYou I Choose You]]'''s English music video of all previous movies, Twitch Watches Pokemon, or any of the marathons on the Twitch Presents channel.
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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Like ''Anime/Pokemon4Ever'', the non-Japan distributors Miramax/Disney didn't care at all for the ''Pokémon'' franchise and released it to just 200 theaters, ensuring its failure. Miramax's continuing hold on ''Heroes'' [[ScrewedByTheLawyers also made it one of the four movies]] The Pokémon Company could not re-release on the 20th anniversary of the franchise, nor include in ''[[Anime/PokemonIChooseYou I Choose You]]'''s English music video of all previous movies, Twitch Watches Pokemon, or any of the marathons on the Twitch Presents channel.channel. As stated above, the rights have reverted to TPCI.
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Replaced links with an archived one in case the original goes down.
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* MissingTrailerScene: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgHsJ4-OaM4 original Japanese trailer]] had almost nothing from the final movie. Examples include a reanimated Kabutops skeleton, a monstrous hand made of red and black energy in front of the Defense Mechanism, and the gang standing around a glowing Soul Dew indoors with no sign of Latias.
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* MissingTrailerScene: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgHsJ4-OaM4 [[https://archive.org/details/pokemon-heroes-trailer-japanese original Japanese trailer]] had almost nothing from the final movie. Examples include a reanimated Kabutops skeleton, a monstrous hand made of red and black energy in front of the Defense Mechanism, and the gang standing around a glowing Soul Dew indoors with no sign of Latias.
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Worded this a bit better.
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* MissingTrailerScene: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgHsJ4-OaM4 original Japanese trailer]] had almost nothing from the final movie. Examples include a reanimated Kabutops skeleton, some sort of red energy a monstrous hand emerging from made of red and black energy in front of the Defense Mechanism, and the gang standing around a glowing Soul Dew INDOORS, indoors with no sign of Latias.
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Made it more accurate.
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* MissingTrailerScene: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgHsJ4-OaM4 original Japanese trailer]] had almost nothing from the final movie. Examples include a reanimated Kabutops skeleton, some sort of red energy humanoid monster emerging from the Defense Mechanism, and the gang standing around a glowing Soul Dew INDOORS, with no sign of Latias.
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* MissingTrailerScene: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgHsJ4-OaM4 original Japanese trailer]] had almost nothing from the final movie. Examples include a reanimated Kabutops skeleton, some sort of red energy humanoid monster monstrous hand emerging from the Defense Mechanism, and the gang standing around a glowing Soul Dew INDOORS, with no sign of Latias.
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I was looking through the history of the main page and saw that bit of info was deleted about 7 years ago as it was better fitted to be on the Trivia page but was never moved.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: A minor example, but still notable in that it’s one of the few movies to not get consistent rereleases. Understandably so, as it and the movie that came before it as well as the two after it’s dubbing rights are owned by the defunct Miramax. More egregiously, the blu ray Blu-ray combo packs are only getting harder to find with prices continually rising.rising.
* MissingTrailerScene: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgHsJ4-OaM4 original Japanese trailer]] had almost nothing from the final movie. Examples include a reanimated Kabutops skeleton, some sort of red energy humanoid monster emerging from the Defense Mechanism, and the gang standing around a glowing Soul Dew INDOORS, with no sign of Latias.
** In an interesting case, the trailers also had music that was not used in the movie or included in its soundtrack. It was released on the music's composer in an album a few years later and was the basis for the ending song.
* MissingTrailerScene: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgHsJ4-OaM4 original Japanese trailer]] had almost nothing from the final movie. Examples include a reanimated Kabutops skeleton, some sort of red energy humanoid monster emerging from the Defense Mechanism, and the gang standing around a glowing Soul Dew INDOORS, with no sign of Latias.
** In an interesting case, the trailers also had music that was not used in the movie or included in its soundtrack. It was released on the music's composer in an album a few years later and was the basis for the ending song.
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Names The Same is no longer a trope
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* NamesTheSame: Bianca was later used as one of the two rival's names in ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite''.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Supposedly, Latias was originally supposed to join Ash on his journey in the series proper. Why this was changed is unclear, but common reasons include the writers not wanting Ash to have a Legendary to keep the rest of his team from being OvershadowedByAwesome and wanting to [[NonSerialMovie keep the movies separate in continuity from the series proper]].
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Supposedly, Latias was originally supposed to join Ash on his journey in the series proper. Why this was changed is unclear, but common reasons include the writers not wanting Ash to have a Legendary to keep the rest of his team from being OvershadowedByAwesome [[note]]Ash would eventually catch one for real during the ''Sun and Moon'' series, a Meltan. [[/note]] and wanting to [[NonSerialMovie keep the movies separate in continuity from the series proper]].
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: A minor example, but still notable in that it’s one of the few movies to not get consistent rereleases. Understandably so, as it and the movie that came before it as well as the two after it’s dubbing rights are owned by the defunct Miramax. More egregiously, the blu ray combo packs are only getting harder to find with prices continually rising.
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* FranchiseKiller: While it didn't kill the ''Pokémon'' film franchise as a whole, nor did it prevent any further English dubs of ''Pokémon'' films, ''Pokémon Heroes'' became the last film in the series to be released theatrically for more than a weekend in North America. It wouldn't be until 2016 when ''Film/PokemonDetectivePikachu'' was announced, with veteran ''Pokémon'' partners Creator/WarnerBros returning to distribute.
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* FranchiseKiller: While it didn't kill the ''Pokémon'' film franchise as a whole, nor did it prevent any further English dubs of ''Pokémon'' films, ''Pokémon Heroes'' became the last film in the series to be released theatrically for more than a weekend in North America. It wouldn't be until 2016 2019 when ''Film/PokemonDetectivePikachu'' was announced, released, with veteran ''Pokémon'' partners Creator/WarnerBros returning to distribute.
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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Like ''Anime/Pokemon4Ever'', the non-Japan distributors Miramax/Disney didn't care at all for the ''Pokémon'' franchise and released it to just 200 theaters, ensuring its failure. Miramax's continuing hold on ''Heroes'' [[ScrewedByTheLawyers also made it one of the four movies]] The Pokémon Company could not re-release on the 20th anniversary of the franchise, nor include in ''[[Anime/PokemonIChooseYou I Choose You]]'''s English music video of all previous movies.
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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Like ''Anime/Pokemon4Ever'', the non-Japan distributors Miramax/Disney didn't care at all for the ''Pokémon'' franchise and released it to just 200 theaters, ensuring its failure. Miramax's continuing hold on ''Heroes'' [[ScrewedByTheLawyers also made it one of the four movies]] The Pokémon Company could not re-release on the 20th anniversary of the franchise, nor include in ''[[Anime/PokemonIChooseYou I Choose You]]'''s English music video of all previous movies.movies, Twitch Watches Pokemon, or any of the marathons on the Twitch Presents channel.
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Movie 14 had a weekend, and movies 20 and 21 got Fathom Events
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* FranchiseKiller: While it didn't kill the ''Pokémon'' film franchise as a whole, nor did it prevent any further English dubs of ''Pokémon'' films, ''Pokémon Heroes'' became the last film in the series to be released theatrically for more than a weekend in North America. It wouldn't be until 2016 when ''Film/PokemonDetectivePikachu'' was announced, with veteran ''Pokémon'' partners Creator/WarnerBros returning to distribute.
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* FranchiseKiller: While it didn't kill the ''Pokémon'' film franchise as a whole, nor did it prevent any further English dubs of ''Pokémon'' films, ''Pokémon Heroes'' became the last film in the series to be released theatrically in North America. It wouldn't be until 2016 when ''Film/PokemonDetectivePikachu'' was announced.announced, with veteran ''Pokémon'' partners Creator/WarnerBros returning to distribute.
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* FranchiseKiller: While it didn't kill the ''Pokémon'' film franchise as a whole, nor did it prevent any further English dubs of ''Pokémon'' films, ''Pokémon Heroes'' became the last film in the series to be released theatrically in North America. It wouldn't be until 2016 when ''Film/DetectivePikachu'' was announced.
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* FranchiseKiller: While it didn't kill the ''Pokémon'' film franchise as a whole, nor did it prevent any further English dubs of ''Pokémon'' films, ''Pokémon Heroes'' became the last film in the series to be released theatrically in North America. It wouldn't be until 2016 when ''Film/DetectivePikachu'' ''Film/PokemonDetectivePikachu'' was announced.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Supposedly, Latias was originally supposed to join Ash on his journey in the series proper. Why this was changed is unclear, but common reasons include the writers not wanting Ash to have a Legendary to keep the rest of his team from being OvershadowedByAwesome and wanting to [[NonSerialMovie keep the movies separate in continuity from the series proper]].
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Supposedly, Latias was originally supposed to join Ash on his journey in the series proper. Why this was changed is unclear, but common reasons include the writers not wanting Ash to have a Legendary to keep the rest of his team from being OvershadowedByAwesome and wanting to [[NonSerialMovie keep the movies separate in continuity from the series proper]].proper]].
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* FranchiseKiller: While it didn't kill the ''Pokémon'' film franchise as a whole, nor did it prevent any further English dubs of ''Pokémon'' films, ''Pokémon Heroes'' became the last film in the series to be released theatrically in North America. It wouldn't be until 2016 when a new ''Pokémon'' film franchise, primarily live-action, was announced, with the first entry, based off the ''VideoGame/DetectivePikachu'' spin-off, scheduled for a worldwide theatrical release including North America.
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* FranchiseKiller: While it didn't kill the ''Pokémon'' film franchise as a whole, nor did it prevent any further English dubs of ''Pokémon'' films, ''Pokémon Heroes'' became the last film in the series to be released theatrically in North America. It wouldn't be until 2016 when a new ''Pokémon'' film franchise, primarily live-action, ''Film/DetectivePikachu'' was announced, with the first entry, based off the ''VideoGame/DetectivePikachu'' spin-off, scheduled for a worldwide theatrical release including North America.announced.
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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Like ''Anime/Pokemon4Ever'', the non-Japan distributors Miramax/Disney didn't care at all for the ''Pokémon'' franchise and released it to just 200 theaters, ensuring its failure. Miramax's continuing hold on ''Heroes'' [[Main/ScrewedByTheLawyers also made it one of the four movies]] The Pokémon Company could not re-release on the 20th anniversary of the franchise, nor include in ''[[Anime/PokemonIChooseYou I Choose You]]'''s English music video of all previous movies.
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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Like ''Anime/Pokemon4Ever'', the non-Japan distributors Miramax/Disney didn't care at all for the ''Pokémon'' franchise and released it to just 200 theaters, ensuring its failure. Miramax's continuing hold on ''Heroes'' [[Main/ScrewedByTheLawyers [[ScrewedByTheLawyers also made it one of the four movies]] The Pokémon Company could not re-release on the 20th anniversary of the franchise, nor include in ''[[Anime/PokemonIChooseYou I Choose You]]'''s English music video of all previous movies.
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* NamesTheSame: Bianca was later used as the rival's name in ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite''.
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* NamesTheSame: Bianca was later used as one of the two rival's name names in ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite''.
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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Like ''Anime/Pokemon4Ever'', the non-Japan distributors Miramax/Disney didn't care at all for the ''Pokémon'' franchise and released it to just 200 theaters, ensuring its failure. Miramax's continuing hold on ''Heroes'' [[Main/ScrewedByTheLawyers also made it one of the four movies]] The Pokémon Company could not re-release on the 20th anniversary of the franchise, nor include in '' [[Anime/PokemonIChooseYou I Choose You]]'''s English music video of all previous movies.
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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Like ''Anime/Pokemon4Ever'', the non-Japan distributors Miramax/Disney didn't care at all for the ''Pokémon'' franchise and released it to just 200 theaters, ensuring its failure. Miramax's continuing hold on ''Heroes'' [[Main/ScrewedByTheLawyers also made it one of the four movies]] The Pokémon Company could not re-release on the 20th anniversary of the franchise, nor include in '' [[Anime/PokemonIChooseYou ''[[Anime/PokemonIChooseYou I Choose You]]'''s English music video of all previous movies.
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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Like ''Anime/Pokemon4Ever'', the non-Japan distributors Miramax/Disney didn't care at all for the ''Pokémon'' franchise and released it to just 200 theaters, ensuring its failure. Miramax's continuing hold on ''Heroes'' [[Main/ScrewedByTheLawyers also made it one of the four movies]] The Pokémon Company could not re-release on the 20th anniversary of the franchise, nor include in '' [[Anime/PokemonIChooseYou I Choose You]]'''s English music video of all previous movies.
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* Main/NamesTheSame FranchiseKiller: While it didn't kill the ''Pokémon'' film franchise as a whole, nor did it prevent any further English dubs of ''Pokémon'' films, ''Pokémon Heroes'' became the last film in the series to be released theatrically in North America. It wouldn't be until 2016 when a new ''Pokémon'' film franchise, primarily live-action, was announced, with the first entry, based off the ''VideoGame/DetectivePikachu'' spin-off, scheduled for a worldwide theatrical release including North America.
* NamesTheSame: Bianca was later used as the rival's name in''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite''.''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite''.
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Like ''Anime/Pokemon4Ever'', the non-Japan distributors Miramax/Disney didn't care at all for the ''Pokémon'' franchise and released it to just 200 theaters, ensuring its failure.
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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Like ''Anime/Pokemon4Ever'', the non-Japan distributors Miramax/Disney didn't care at all for the ''Pokémon'' franchise and released it to just 200 theaters, ensuring its failure.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Supposedly, Latias was originally supposed to join Ash on his journey in the series proper. Why this was changed is unclear, but common reasons include the writers not wanting Ash to have a Legendary to keep the rest of his team from being OvershadowedByAwesome and wanting to [[NonSerialMovie keep the movies separate in continuity from the series proper]].
